Files, Folders… and now File Handles!
The File and Folder commands, which appeared in 4D v17 R5, enable you to manage folders and files on disk in a modern and efficient way. When it come...
October 14, 2022
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Files and Folders
Tech Tips — The 4 Tips of April are Here!
by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc As a 4D developer, you have to keep up with the new advances 4D is cont...
April 14, 2022
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LZMA: The new compression algorithm
Whenever we exchange files, we always go through the ritual of compressing the files before sending them. Since 4D v18, two commands are available, al...
October 6, 2021
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Zip/unzip files and folders with these commands
Before exchanging files (by email for example), we often compress them to reduce their size before transmitting them. With 4D v18, you can compress an...
November 21, 2019
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Power of objects and dot notation
With 4D v17 R5, we showed you how easy it is to manipulate an object to retrieve the attributes of a file or folder. Things have gotten even easier th...
September 3, 2019
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Object notation to handle files and folders
4D already provides commands to handle files and folders, but what about new commands that take advantage of the power of object notation? Objects ha...
May 2, 2019
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